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单词 transfiguration
释义
transfiguration
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˌtræns.fɪ.ɡərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌtræns.fɪɡ.jəˈreɪ.ʃən/
theactorprocessoftransfiguringsomeone or something(=changingtheirappearancevery much,especiallyin aspiritualway):
No otherscientisthas comecloseto hisdegreeoffameandmythictransfiguration.
Thepaintingsare ameditationonwar,death, and transfiguration.
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transfigure
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  • Thethemeofenlightenmentor transfiguration is whatmotivatedme.
  • He did notconceiveof the end of theworldas a transfiguration, butratheras aliberationof thespirit.
  • Temptation and transfiguration are twosidesof the samecoin.
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(Definition oftransfigurationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftransfiguration

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Genres, like records, do not rest in one site, but refract into multiple and successive transfigurations of musical meaning.
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This abasement is but the prelude to a further, more glorioustransfiguration.
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This seculartransfigurationof the myth partially explains the desired ' conquest ' of the working class.
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The individual experiences return to andtransfigurationof childhood.
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Nor is the postulate of the empirical possibility of the cultivation of the joyoustransfigurationof the moral in conflict with strong physicalism.
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Crucially, though, they have undergone a strikingtransfigurationin compositional function.
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For example, meditations aimed at release from ego-identification facilitate exercises aimed at cultivating the joyoustransfigurationof the moral, and vice versa.
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Such transfigurations, employing allegory and exotic imagery, epitomize the carefully choreographed spectacle of femininity produced for the male gaze in the aristocratic marriage market.
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With their gentle irony, these brief allusions serve primarily to reinforce or remind us of the transfigurations that have preceded them.
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There was notransfigurationof elite identity nor epiphany of brotherhood.
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In addition, her gown is not embroidered with shamrocks but with stars, a change that facilitates thetransfigurationof the subject.
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As a linguistic process,transfigurationcan be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.
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This socialtransfiguration, accompanied by an industrial decline, is believed to have caused an acute sense of deprivation amongst the city's subordinate social groups.
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Moreover, by insisting on tragedy overtransfiguration, the final chord paints as tragic not so much anything particular that animates the story, but the story's movement as a whole.
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The second point states that there is an empirical connection - a causal relationship - between liberation from conventional ego-identification, joyoustransfigurationof the moral, and psychophysical transformation.
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